Why Lithuania is special!
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2020
- Lithuania is the most underrated country in the world. Celebrating their national day of Statehood (6 July), Crispin discusses some of what makes Lithuania unique, from its ancient language to its great pagan folk tales.
I have seen a ton of videos about LT about how it rebelled the CCP and so on, but I have never seen a non-Lithuanian person to dig down to Lithuania history so deep that some of it weren't even mentioned in our history books. That's some deep digging! Love it!
Lithuania has been at war with Christian Europe for four centuries. Plus wars with the Mongols. Those wars severely devastated the Lithuanian nation. Lithuanian baptism was a political decision of King Jogaila, which was not supported by a large part of the Lithuanian nobility. Jogaila has become a traitor to the nation for centuries.
"Pagans" it is christian term. Lithuanian prechristian culture was more advanced than christian. Now it is taboo to talk about that.
Lithuania was the last patch of land with the last old European culture that the Abrahamic religions agreed to destroy I believe they will not succeed
It is common for people from a foreign country to say only a few facts about Lithuania, which most of the time is copied from another source. I respect the author for searching for information himself and also saying his point of view. His opinion is interesting for me as a Lithuanian. :Ddd
daughter was turned in to an aspen tree. Commonly called quaking aspen. Lithuanian name for common aspen is Drebulė. it translates to quake, shiver, tremble.
Thank you :)!
Eglė punished her doughter for eternal lonelyness, as quaking aspen's leaves always shivers and no bird lands on its branches.
I would love to go to Lithuania! Cheers from the southern US.
Come over some day! But do manage your expectations - everything we have is rather tiny in comparison, as we are a small country. But if you come with a mindset to love it, you will find a lot of beauty in our country. It is calm, and has it’s own magic, ancient Baltic vibes
Eglė (mothers) name means = spruce tree, 3 sons names means = Oaktree, Birch tree, and an ash tree. Daughter Drebulė was explained by another comment but its aspen tree which also means treble, shiver, quake.
When Eglė cursed the daughter she told this poem
Kad tu pavirstum į drebulėlę,
Kad tu drebėtum dieną naktelę,
Kad tau išpraustų lietus burnelę,
Kad iššukuotų vėjas galvelę!..
Which would translate to something like (but it won't rhythm)
To turn you into an aspen tree (Drebuole)
That you would shake day and night,
That rain would wash your mouth,
That the wind would comb your hair!
This is spontaneous and probably unnecessary (especially considering my English isn't that great to translate something like this) but I just felt like doing it.
Will have to learn it in Lithuanian ;).
@@BalticWorld my sons name is Azuolas (Oak), my sisters name is Egle (Spruce)...))
U ppl belongs to india
Yes i believe it is the remnant of indo European steppe people that were responsible for the brahmin class in India and the settlement of all european peoples.@nitinbull8720
Thanks here. My Russian-Ukrainian mother hailed from Kaunas and I am Cambodian. I must say, Lithuania is beautiful. It has an unique proud history with unlimited heroism and dedicated people. Lithuania is wonderful and I have nothing but grateful to feel my Lithuanian part.
Cambodian/Lithuanian! Remarkable combination :).
@@BalticWorld Actually I only know Russian, because I lived in Russia mostly, before moving to Lithuania.
@LitlLemon Cambodia is also quite nearly similar to Lithuania, both used to be greatest empires on times, before being absorbed and destroyed by more brutal neighbors
yo Im Cambodian and Lithuanian too!
Lithuanians converted to Christianity only to stop Teutonic order from waging wars against pagans. They used to fight for more than 200 years, and Lithuanians had little to choose from. It wasn't really a choice to become Christians it was a choice to stop these wars.
that and because Vytautas wanted a trophy - to become an officially recognized kingdom.
@@UtamagUta officially recognised kingdom meant no more crusades against Lithuania. Duh...
400 years not 200 !!!!
@@Moliugas89 Lithuania was converted to Christianity in 1250 and 1385 but the crusades only ended with the battle of Grunwald in 1410 resulting in the eventual collapse of the Teutonic knights. The crusades were about taking lads and slaves, religion was only an excuse to do it as the crusades continued even after Christianisation even against the wishes of the pope.
Unfortunately, this is not true. And who destroyed the prophets of the Gentiles, our noble kings and nobles. The conversion from paganism to Catholicism was very cruel, even the villages with the prophet were destroyed, people hid in the woods and performed their pagan rites. And the whole process took 100 years. It took so many years for people to become Catholics to begin to believe in Catholicism, which was brought about through blood and massacre. I never accepted this faith even when I was little, I ran away from the priests because to me if it always seemed like bad people. Catholicism is a faith permeated with blood and massacre.
Interesting to hear this from a foreigner.
Really is
Lietuvą is really amazing, as She wants to help all those who under the pressure of totalitarian regimes (in Ukraine, we can clearly see it). You, Baltic people, have the great future.
I don't want to hurt other Baltic States
proud to be Lithuanian !!!
You ppl belongs to india
your a amazing person for caring about Lithuanian history many just see us as tiny
It's a wonderful place, and deserves way more recognition! Be careful though, one day Lithuania will be discovered and you'll have to contend with all the tourists ;).
@@BalticWorldTourists were different, some with goods and others with ideology
Thanks bro,, Greetings from Lithuania)),,
Welcome! Greetings from Australia :).
Hello Australia !
I was standing on a human wall to protect Lithuanian parliament from Soviet Tanks and my mother allowed me to go ... - yes Lithuania is a very special country. They don't submit to CCP and RasPutler or the "last dictator of Europe". Proud and resilient nation.
im acualy sad seeing my country slowly dying, hope that my country will not die off in pages of history
It may be turning a corner! Population decline halted in the past year or so.
Thanks for such an informative video. Actually, after breaking from the soviet occupation some Lithuanians tried to recreate our pagan religion. There is a community called Romuva which members are preserving pagan traditions and ways of living. The old religion glorified nature therefore animals like grass-snake or oaktree are a big part of Lithuanian mythology.
Hi Brigita! Thank you! Yes, I'm told there is a major festival in August for the Romuva community. I have plans to go to the next one - hopefully all borders etc. will be normal long before then!
There is a group on Facebook called Romuva-Siaures Amerika. I’ve been learning a lot about Romuva history and it’s current practitioners. This group is very active sharing information and events and art and music. It’s awesome! Check it out.
As soon I could read I read at school simplified version of Egle Zalciu Karaliene. We love our forest and trees. I am so greatful to have forest as a playground in my childhood.
Thank you, for excellently articulated cultural history of Lithuania. Tegyvuoja Lietuva!
Nice content on Lithuania. Theres definitely a gap on pre-Christian Lithuanian history in terms of academic research and also it's not being taught in a modern and engaging way in schools, I remember hating it myself but now I find new respect and fascination. Your approach is much appreciated from a lithuanian expat who is looking forward to coming back and relearning the history again. Thanks for the inspo and looking forward to more content from you. ✌💛
Thank you! I’m going home in few months time! Can’t wait.
Hello all, I am 3rd generation Lithuanian living in the Uk, I am also part German, English, irish and Scottish.
In the past year I felt called to research and discover my Lithuania heritage. For 3/4 months last year I was in Varanasi India during the first lock down, where I met a Lithuania 'baba' or 'sadhu' living at the side of the Ganga. He was a fountain of knowledge, this is where I received many teachings about the storey of Lithuania. Many of which parallel the information you have presented here, so thank you for your dedication to your research.
I have also been informed about many similarities between Vedic / hindu culture and indigenous Lithuanian traditions. For example 'romuva' known as a place of worship, temple, sanctuary, abode of inner peace and heaven according the philosophical writings of Vydūnas.Sanskrit
I am wondering does anyone have any other information regarding hinduism and indigenous Lithuanian tradition ? I am very very interested to hear more. I have also been learning about the tattooed women and the similarities between the two.
Btw your real surname should be butkevičiūtė since you are a female (judging by your name)
Butkevičius is a mans surname
@@Habibas777 I know this now, however my parents did not
I recommend Aivaras Lileikis
Thanks for good words about Lithuania! :)
Thanks for watching!
I am from Lithuanian background I find your videos very interesting.. thank you for your work
Hey, read about the legend of 'Pilėnai' you'll like it. It's a legend about a Duke named Margiris, whose entire small village, who, instead of accepting Crusaders, burned themselves to remain free.
We have musicals about this. There is a song called 'Ūdrio Arija' best known musical number in Lithuania.
Also there is a legend of a fishermans daughter Neringa, who became a giant to save her village from a sea storm.
Wow! That's wonderful Martyna. I'll check the legend of Pileni, and listening to 'Ūdrio Arija' right now ;). Will discuss in future.
@@BalticWorldIt could have been Jotvingiai A tribe related to Lithuanians You will read a similar story when the Romans surrounded and killed Goth soldiers during one battle, their women killed their children and killed themselves
Greatings from Lithuania ✌️👍.
Greetings to you too Martynas, from Australia ;).
Thank you sharing about our country
You're welcome - more will come on Lithuania ;).
I'm so excited. My grandparents came to Canada after the war. I thought I had to get my EU passport through my dad. But I can get it through desendency. Due to the young people leaving once lithuania joined the EU. I'm a proud pagan. I have always felt more at home in the Forrest with the trees. HERE IN ONTARIO we had a program called earth keepers where you learn about how to navagate by the stars. Polaris is I. The lite dipper. Not the bright planet venus that you see shortly before dawn. The trees how they got there names from the serpent queen. I have always loved snakes. And the trees. Lithuanian people are so resilient. The last to be christanistanized. But return to paganism is really big. The first to leave the usssr. And having to play Russia in the Olympics after taking more than half there team and playing gist the guys they had been playing with for years. THANKS Gery Garcia. The documentary the other drem team is amazing. Lithuanian although they didn't beat Russia they won the hearts of the world. "we will get by." a touch of Grey.
They have a art project in there su way which let's them see people in Poland in real time and eventually many other subways. It's to remind us that we are all the same. Plus because most lithuania aren't I. Lithuania it would be amazing to have one I. Toronto or New York where most ImMigrated to after the war. And in Paris and Berlin and London where the EU dreamers went. That way families could and friends could see each other there is that connection to home and not just that butmost import each other a d to be able to see ourselves as we go about our daily task a d realize we are all alike is the wake up call we need right now. It's brilliant t a d I'm so excited more su ways are clamoring to be a part of this
love Lithuania
Well done, interesting view point, was truly amusing hearing one of our old folk tales explained in english.
pagans exist today we have pagan holidays :p
Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge!
Thank you for watching!
All is great man, but turn up the volume!!
Yes - we've learned that lesson since thankfully ;).
@@BalticWorld many thanks.
As lithuanian and even a carer of Eglė name, which means Fir tree, we are aware of our legends, unique singing and even that we embraced a freedom of religion while western Europe was plagued with counter reformation wars. Imo, you had to emphasize that shape shifting was a common part of local legends, otherwise that legend (which i was OBSESSED as a kid) makes no sense 😂
But yeah, when i watched the Avatar movie, i was in "meh, it's just a pagan propaganda" mode as it's 1:1 in tune of our pagan traditions, in our culture, the Mother tree is Eglė - dead souls of women rest in fir trees and mens' - in oaks.
My sister is EGLE(goddess of death... lithuanian mithology,.. etc).
A teeny tiny correction concerning the name. It means a spruce tree rather than a fir tree.
Long live the Lithuanian resistance, respect from semitic occupied Rome
I'm from lithuania but I live in Scotland and was never really raised or taught much about it (I can speak some Lithuanian)
Based on personal experience, I wonder if there is a Lithuanian girl invisibly fomenting his passion for this nation.
Great work! Thank you
You're welcome :) , more to come.
"Oldest language in Europe" doesn't make any sense. It might be one of the most archaic living Indo-European languages in certain points of view, that's all. The European language that has been spoken in its current territory for the longest time is Basque. Nobody even knows what are its origins and the most popular theory among specialists is that it derives from the language spoken by the 1st Homo Sapiens of Europe.
But all that doesn't mean Lithuanian or Basque is "older"; languages have no age since they don't appear overnight, they always derive from an older version of themselves, and going back in time like that since the time people started to be able to speak...
thank you😊👍
Anytime bro! More to come :).
Mindaugas' successors did not express enough interest in following in his footsteps. There were decades of vacillation between the Latin and the Orthodox options. "For Gediminas and Algirdas, retention of paganism provided a useful diplomatic tool and weapon... that allowed them to use promises of conversion as a means of preserving their power and independence". Grand Duke Algirdas had pursued an option of "dynamic balance". Throughout his reign, he teased both Avignon and Constantinople with the prospects of a conversion; several unsuccessful attempts were made to negotiate the conversion of Lithuania. To avoid further clashes with the Teutonic Order, in 1349, Lithuanian co-ruler Kęstutis started the negotiations with Pope Clement VI for the conversion and had been promised royal crowns for himself and his sons. Algirdas willingly remained aside of the business and dealt with the order in the Ruthenian part of the state. The intermediary in the negotiations, Polish King Casimir III, made an unexpected assault on Volhynia and Brest in October 1349 that ruined Kęstutis' plan. During the Polish-Lithuanian war for Volhynia, King Louis I of Hungary offered a peace agreement to Kęstutis on 15 August 1351, according to which Kęstutis obliged himself to accept Christianity and provide the Kingdom of Hungary with military aid, in exchange of the royal crown. Kęstutis confirmed the agreement by performing a pagan ritual to convince the other side. In fact, Kęstutis had no intentions to abide the agreement and ran away on his way to Buda.
By the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania had emerged as a successor to Kievan Rus in the western part of its dominions. Although its sovereign was pagan, the majority of the population was Slavic and Orthodox. To legitimize their rule in these areas, the Lithuanian royalty frequently married into the Orthodox Rurikid aristocracy of Eastern Europe. As a result, some Lithuanian rulers were baptised into Eastern Orthodoxy either as children (Švitrigaila) or adults. The first one was Vaišelga, son and heir of Mindaugas, who took monastic vows at an Orthodox monastery in Lavrashev near Novgorodok and later established a convent there.
Christianization by Jogaila and Vytautas
The final attempt to Christianize Lithuania was made by Jogaila. Jogaila's Russian mother urged him to marry Sofia, daughter of Prince Dmitri of Moscow, who required him first to convert to Orthodoxy and to make Lithuania a fief of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. That option, however, was unrealistic and unlikely to halt the crusades against Lithuania by the Teutonic Order. Jogaila chose therefore to accept a Polish proposal to become a Catholic and marry Queen Jadwiga of Poland. On these and other terms, on 14 August 1385, at the castle of Krėva, Jogaila agreed to adopt Christianity, signing the Act of Krėva. Władysław II Jagiełło was duly baptised at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków on 15 February 1386 and became king of Poland. The royal baptism was followed by the conversion of most of Jogaila's court and knights, as well as Jogaila's brothers Karigaila, Vygantas, Švitrigaila and cousin Vytautas. Jogaila sent Dobrogost, Bishop of Poznań, as ambassador to Pope Urban VI with a petition for the erection of an episcopal see at Vilnius and the appointment of Andrzej Jastrzębiec to fill it.
Jogaila returned to Lithuania in February 1387. The baptism of nobles and their peasants was at first carried out in the capital Vilnius and its environs. The nobility and some peasants in Aukštaitija were baptized in spring, followed by the rest of the Lithuanian nobility. The parishes were established in ethnic Lithuania and the new Vilnius Cathedral was built in 1387 in the site of a demolished pagan temple. According to the information of disputed accuracy provided by Jan Długosz, the first parochial churches were built in Lithuanian pagan towns Vilkmergė, Maišiagala, Lida, Nemenčinė, Medininkai, Kreva, Haina and Abolcy, all belonging to the Jogaila's patrimony. Jogaila destroyed the old places of worship: altars, sacred groves, killed grass snakes and other snakes that were regarded as divine guardians of households at the time. The papal bull issued by Pope Urban VI on 12 March 1388 has information about destruction of pagan cult objects in Vilnius and provided legal grounds for establishment of the Vilnius Cathedral. On 19 April 1389, Pope Urban VI recognized the status of Lithuania as a Roman Catholic state. Lithuania was the last state in Europe to be Christianized. Samogitia was the last ethnic region of Lithuania to become Christianized in 1413, following the defeat of the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Grunwald and the Peace of Thorn and its subsequent return to the Lithuanian control. In November 1413, Vytautas himself sailed Neman River and Dubysa, reached the environs of Betygala, where he baptised the first groups of Samogitians. In 1416, the construction of eight first parochial churches was started. The Diocese of Samogitia was established on 23 October 1417 and Matthias of Trakai became the first Bishop of Samogitia. The cathedral was built in Medininkai around 1464.
Ethnic Lithuanian nobles were the main converts to Catholicism, but paganism remained strong among the peasantry. Pagan customs prevailed for a long time among the common people of Lithuania and were covertly practiced. There had been no prosecution of priests and adherents of the old faith. However, by the 17th century, following the Counter-Reformation (1545-1648), the Roman Catholic faith had essentially taken precedence over earlier pagan beliefs. The conversion and its political implications had lasting repercussions for the history of Lithuania. As the majority of the population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania outside Lithuania proper was Orthodox and the elite gradually converted to Roman Catholicism, religious tensions increased. Some of the Orthodox Gediminids left Lithuania for Muscovy, where they gave rise to such families as the Galitzine and the Troubetzkoy. The Orthodox population of present-day Ukraine and eastern Belarus often sympathized with the rulers of Muscovy, who portrayed themselves as the champions of Orthodoxy. These feelings contributed to such reverses as the Battle of Vedrosha, which crippled the Grand Duchy and undermined its position as a dominant power in Eastern Europe.
On the other hand, the conversion to Roman Catholicism facilitated Lithuania's integration into the cultural sphere of Western Europe and paved the way to the political alliance of Lithuania and Poland, finalized as the Union of Lublin in 1569.
When you find out you're 1% Lithuanian
Thank you for spreading the true word about us
Anytime , more are coming!
Yes we were the last pagans of Europe. I am extremely proud of my Lithuanian heritage...but I am also proud that I am Catholic . Native Lithuanians do not understand how many prayers were said for their freedom outside their homeland. All support aid and supplies that were sent. The American Lithuanians secretly collected items and brought them over. The distracted the Soviet guards with girly magazines so supplies were not well inspected. There are organizations that still help today even after the fall of the USSR.
The Christianization of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos krikštas) occurred in 1387, initiated by King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło and his cousin Vytautas the Great. It signified the official adoption of Christianity by Lithuania, the last pagan country in Europe. This event ended one of the most complicated and lengthiest processes of Christianization in European history. Lithuanians' contacts with the Christian religion predated the establishment of the Duchy of Lithuania in the 13th century. The first known record of the name Lithuania (Litua), recorded in the Annals of Quedlinburg in 1009, relates to Chalcedonian missionaries led by Bruno of Querfurt, who baptised several rulers of the Yotvingians, a nearby Baltic tribe. However, Lithuanians had more active contacts with the Kievan Rus' and subsequent Eastern Slavic states, which had adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in the 10th century.
As the dukes of Lithuania extended their dominion eastwards, the influence of the Slavic states on their culture increased. Their subordinates and the people followed their example, borrowing, for instance, many of the East Slavic versions of Christian names in the 11th-12th centuries. This borrowing became increasingly widespread among the pagan population in Aukštaitija, though much less so in Samogitia. The influence of Orthodox Christianity on pagan Lithuanian culture is evidenced in about one-third of present-day Lithuanian surnames which are constructed from baptismal names are Old Church Slavonic in origin. In addition, the Lithuanian words for "church", "baptism" and "fast" are classed as 'loanwords from Russian rather than Polish.'
Baptism of Mindaugas
The emergence of a monastic state of the Livonian Order around the Lithuanian borders made it rather urgent to choose a state religion. The first Lithuanian Grand Duke to adopt Western Christianity was Mindaugas, although his nephew and rival Tautvilas had done that earlier, in 1250. The first translations of Catholic prayers from German were made during his reign and have been known since.In 1249, Tautvilas' ally Daniel of Halych attacked Navahradak, and in 1250, another ally of Tautvilas, the Livonian Order, organized a major raid against Nalšia land and Mindaugas' domains in Lithuania proper. Attacked from the south and north and facing the possibility of unrest elsewhere, Mindaugas was placed in an extremely difficult position, but managed to use the conflicts between the Livonian Order and the Archbishop of Riga in his own interests. In 1250 or 1251, Mindaugas agreed to receive baptism and relinquish control over some lands in western Lithuania, for which he was to receive a crown in return. Mindaugas and his family were baptised in the Catholic rite in 1250 or 1251. On July 17, 1251 Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bull proclaiming Lithuania a Kingdom and the state was placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome. Mindaugas and his wife Morta were crowned at some time during the summer of 1253, and the Kingdom of Lithuania, formally a Christian state, was established. Even after nominally becoming a Catholic, King Mindaugas did not cease sacrificing to his own gods. Despite the ruling family's baptism, Lithuania had not become a truly Christian state, since there were no fruitful efforts to convert its population; Lithuanians and Samogitians stood firmly for their ancestral religion. Some of this might be attributed to the Golden Horde tumanbashi Burundaj's campaign in 1259 and 1260, which caused destruction in Lithuania proper and Nalšia.
In fact u can hear sankrith and Old Hindi everywhere you go in the Baltic states
Thank You for the nice videos about our country and the Baltic states. Be sure to visit Kaunas to see a more preserved Lithuanian culture. Vilnius, as a capital, has a lot of influence from abroad, which is probably true for every capital and that's ok. However, Kaunas is much more preserved in the sense of everything Lithuanian :)
Thankyou very much👌👍🇱🇹
Eglė the Queen of Serpent is more like secret epos of the Lithuania, but almost nobody wants to talk about it. So every sentence in it has to be understood with very deep historical meaning.
World would be so much more interesting if more pagan cultures fully survived 😔
Good job, check story about Jūratė ir Kastytis.
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Just a small reminder. The Baltics are NOT states. They were called states all th time that they were occupied, but in fact they are individual NATIONS. Lithuania was a Kingdom once !!! There are no Pacific States, No Atlantic States, no Mediterranean States and there are NO states in the Baltic. Only Baltic Nations.
Thanks - by Baltic states most of us mean 'nation states' - much like the 'Nordic states', for example.
Lithuanians did convert because they needed an alliance with Poland, not by choice.
I am drawn to the place my grandfather & grandmother both were born and their homeland for as far back as I know .
My maiden , our name is Zemaitis .
Grandma’s maiden name was Cyzauscas.
Any information?
Such an in depth video, where I, as Lithuanian, just got a task to read a story about Eglė once again and remember what it is all about. However I wanna stress one thing (maybe several):
Lithuania stood like a fence between Europe and eastern barbarians. Once there were a Lithuanian Grand Duchy - the biggest country of Europe, the country of many nations, which means it was a union. A union against Golden horde from the east. Grand duchy of Lithuania became biggest country of Europe not because it conquered other nations, but because Lithuanian Grand dukes invited them to be in a union against Golden horde, more or less the same as today's EU. In Grand Duchy of Lithuania there were many nations, many religions and it lasted tens of times longer than todays EU, many Lithuanians were still pagans, Grand Duchy of Lithuania were baptized as Christians, majority of population were orthodox, there were Islamic Tatars from Crimea, therefore so many Jews started to emigrate from western Europe to Grand Duchy of Lithuania as there were freedom of religion, freedom of Language spoken and etc. Vilnius was once called as Northern Jerusalem, as concentration of Jews became so big, that they became the biggest national group of inhabitants of Vilnius. But then Russian empire started to destroy all that, destruction lasted ages, yet even today Vilnius has one of the biggest old towns in Europe, Europe's oldest language, and biggest pagan believers minority and best preserved pagan traditions. Not only that - we, as Lithuanians, are fighting for freedom of Ukraine and Belarus. These are nations no less important than any other nation in Europe, yet by ages destroyed by Russia. I think we should help them to bloom once again.
Imagen there are many language that are death and for some reason most of them were writen down, and today the nations of that language disappeared, just coz they stared to write. What Lithuanian in most case did is keep it small life somewhere in woods or underground stay quite and live. Later pass down the knowledge trow stories for every generation, even things like skills and what not, pagans survived even in Catholic rolled land no matter what changed still united people, even in hard times! But everyone tried to dominate our spirit we always get back and fight even if fall.
It seems to tell stories to you kids is better then letting them read that.. Most of people who live there they live old way with new modern style of life you can see things like only in Lithuanian and things that common. We have many religions as long as we keep religion to our self we dont need to cross the line on religious believes.
I'm from Lithuania:)
Eglė was turned not into pine but into spruce. 'Eglė' - eng. 'spruce'.
couple of facts ..to ask your self .. how many true Lithuanians lived in current territory during pre-medivl times, then during grand expansion of LDK grand duchess of Lithuania, then soviet times, then current times ?....its more like the same numbers +- 3 millions, that is their/our strength in consistency and our ability to recognize our identity
Volume is very low. I am Lavian. Any episodes or Latvia?
Haha, I jumped when he said my name first
Gintarė is a beautiful name, and never met one I didn't like.
@@BalticWorld Haha, thanks!
Hello Crispin !
Hello Ignas!
I would like to know the basis of you establishing a Baltic-Hittite connection ?
I thought you said somewhere in the video that Lithuanian or baltic languages descended from Hittite ?
Twas just an attempt of stretching the owl over the globe. Besides, the basques and their language and culture are way more ancient in contrast to lithuanians.
The egle story refers snakes being the vikings.
A bit hard to understand you mumbling in some places, but great video. Keep going.
Yes sorry about that, early channel mistakes.
väldig fint talk
And than on the 7th day god created basketball and It was good!
The recorded volume is too low and the speaker's voice goes up and down in volume. Difficult to listen to even though the information is interesting.
Yes , sorry Elena, an early UA-cam fail there.
Lithuanian is directly descended from Hittite? Did I hear that correctly.. is there any evidence for this?? I always thought Lithuanian had a Sanskrit connection?
LDK! LDK! LDK!
I'm ... not sure your breakdown of the Lithuanian language is right. It is part of the Baltic branch of the Proto-Indo-European family, and it is famously the language that preserves the most features of PIE. But making like it's a descendant of Hittite is just wrong.
Early on, PIE broke into the "Anatolian" and "Late PIE" branches; Hittite was part of the Anatolian branch, and all the Anatolian languages are now dead. Lithuanian emerged from the other branch, known as the Proto-Nuclear-Indo-European branch. I'm not sure why it has that name, but probably because all existing PIE-derived languages come from that branch.
George R.R Martin's inspiration for Starks is clearly (to me) from Lithuanian and or Baltic ppl history here is a play by Latvian about Mindaugas ua-cam.com/video/uJFZTZ29zec/v-deo.html&t one can pick up lots of connections. But yeah dunno if this play would interest outsiders + translation is just not the same as knowing the language . Anyways its nice to see someone giving us some credit usually ppl claim all sort of nonsense.
I'm sure its inspiration is northern england. Highly unlikely that he has heard about Lithuania.
@@Lachausis England yup however Dothraki is not.
all Latvians crying right now
False information. "Eglė (Iglė) the queen of serpents "its lithuanian farytale. Old one. Our gods was different. Now we have Baltic myths park ir Kretinga district (with statues of old Gods Praamžius, Saulė (Sun) and Mėnulis (MOON), also like Bangpūtys god of Sea wave blower), Rūgutis (god of beer makers, name means fermentation) etc. Our pagans gods was Perkūnas (Tunder), Žemyna (earth), Milda (love), Aušrinė (Sunrise), Vakare (Sundown), Jūratė (sea), Veliona (death) etc. Its 76 different gods from different times
Yeah definitely hard to tell sometimes where mythology ends and religion begins. But thank you! Will track down what I can all these deities ;).
@@BalticWorld You can check story about Jūratė and Kastytis (its about Young fisherman and sea goddes Jūratė. Ech evening she sings for God Perkunas (tunder). He wanted marry her. She lives on the bottom of the ocean, in amber palace. After one storm she saved fisherman from drowning and fell in love with him. After she doesn't want to sign for Perkunas . So because of anger, Perkunas drown fisherman, and destroyed amber palace. Jūratė died ). Till now sea give us pieces of palace. You can find old animation about what (youtube file name "Gintarinė pilis Jūratė ir Kastytis) 1595 m.", in lithuanian) English is my 3 foreing language. Sorry for mistakes
just don't move there :) Property prices and pollution will increase, we don't want to share this little heaven lol!!
Might not be able to help it ;).
What You stated at the start and end of video the same could be sad about Latvia and Latvian tradition
You told the modern Egle story :D orinigal story is nicer ;)
Their language actually has many sanskrith words … sanskrith predates Hittite languages of Mesopotamia ….. don’t believe me look it up!! … as for religion it has similarities to ancient India “vedic” civilisation!!
I am lithuenian 🇱🇹
Not Just Lithuania, there are many beautiful pagan cultures throughout Europe not just Graeco-roman and norse.
Sadly they were all destroyed thanks to a monotheistic cult of murderers.
Oldest language? What about Basque?
The launauge of the Basque is the oldest. And has no ties to any know launauge. Basque is a region between Spain and France. My grandmother was Lithuania be and my grandfather is from Kaliningrad. The Russian that doesn't touch the rest of Russia. Lithuanian is closest to sand criprt. It didn't have Latin from being converted by the Crusaders because the Crusaders only went back there again 500 years later after retreating in fear 500 years before. They had already converted all their neighbors and the rest of Europe so they returned. Because they didn't have Latin like there neighbors for 500 years the launauge didn't evolve by mergering with Latin phrases or words like other countries. Which is why it's considered the oldest. But the lauanuage of the Basque peopleis the oldest in Europe.
Yes we've been told :P it's a robot that apparently does terribly.
Examples of similar words wind is sanskrith is Vaiu… in Lithuanian it’s ?? Vaiu… branch in sanskrith is shloka.. in Lithuanian it shloka …
Wind-Vėjas
Branch-Šaka
Written differently, but yes they sound similar to sanskrit
India is your root
Argh! We are not states but sovereign nations
Lithuqnians belongs to india
I love Indian food.
lithuanian is from hittite?? wtf give some proof
It's not even close to being special
Two corrections Mr , first was a Baltic Sea- not the ocean, and another one Little girl becomes the tree 🌳 ( Drebulė ) that means Tree leaves all the time moves ( shaking ) . And I will love to tell you that Lithuanian Kuršiai was much more brutal then Vikings, and they have two colonies in Africa and Caribbean state. In Africa- Gambia 🇬🇲 ( to these days standing the Fort ), Caribbean - Dominica
Lithunians r ancient Hindu Vedic people pre mahabharta age । They know Sanskrit v well। । Marriage is witnessed by fire as in India hindu people।
They r Vedic sanatani hindu।
Old Sanskrit language soeaker
Lithuanian language does not come from Hittite that is false. Both Hittite and Lithuanian come from a common ancestor referred to as Proto Indo European language. It just so happens that Lithuanian is ludicrously conservative especially when compared to this Proto Indo European Indus has a lot of similarities with Hittite which is quite ancient but one could also say the same thing of Lithuanian and Sanskrit language. But it’s false to say that Lithuanian language comes from Hittite. Likewise Lithuanian pagan religion comes from the same route religion as ancient Nordic religion but you wan cannot say the ancient Nordic religion comes from Lithuania as there is material culture a.k.a. archaeology which confirms the presence of Nordic religion in Scandinavia back to at least the Bronze Age